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Account of a comet

by: Herschel, William, Sir, 1738-1822; Watson, William, Sir, 1715-1787; Basire, James, 1730-1802, engraver; United States. Patent Office. Scientific Library, former owner. DSI; Royal Society (Great Britain)

Publication date: 1781

Topics: Uranus (Planet)

Collection: smithsonian

Contributor: Smithsonian Libraries

Language: English

Volume: v. 71, pt. 2 (1781)

Item Size: 30.5M

Caption title

Extracted from: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, v. 71, pt. 2, article no. 32 (1781)

Includes three folded leaves of plates, numbered XXIV, XXV, and XXVI, and signed: Basire sc

Burndy. Science

SCDIRB copy has bookplate: Scientific Library, United States Patent Office

SCDIRB copy has a modern brown buckram library binding with gilt-lettered spine

Addeddate: 2012-05-24 13:54:20

Associated-names: Watson, William, Sir, 1715-1787; Basire, James, 1730-1802, engraver; United States. Patent Office. Scientific Library, former owner; Royal Society (Great Britain)